The Best TV Shows on Speed

Every Speed Show Ranked From Best To Worst

A broadcaster of distinction, Speed has aired more than 20 shows between 1981 and N/A. MotorWeek and American Muscle Car represent the pinnacle of Speed’s programming, launching in 1981 and 2003. Dive into our updated selection of Speed’s finest, featuring more than 20 series as of April 2026.

  • Dumbest Stuff on Wheels
    Dumbest Stuff on Wheels (2011)9.0

    This comedy series focuses on crashes recorded via amateur video and involving anything that's on wheels, from cars and trucks, to even shopping carts and unicycles.

  • American Muscle Car
    American Muscle Car (2003)8.0

    American Muscle Car is a weekly television show on Speed, produced by Restoration Productions LLC., about muscle cars. Each episode provides a timeline of each vehicle's history beginning with its first year of production to its most recent year of production. The show was initially designed to showcase traditional muscle cars such as the Chevrolet Camaro, Ford Mustang, and Dodge Charger. It eventually added other performance vehicles such as the Shelby Cobra and the Chevrolet Corvette, and even began to focus on specific eras such as the Corvette Stingray. It even created a special dedicated to the last 1967 Corvette Stingray produced. In 2006 season, the show's focus was expanded to include designers and engineers of muscle car era. In 2007 season, the show's focus was expanded to include vintage races, powertrain components.

  • MotorWeek
    MotorWeek (1981)4.4

    This award-winning weekly automotive magazine provides unbiased, consumer-oriented car news with feature stories on related topics.

  • Victory by Design
    Victory by Design (2003)N/A

    The series features many of the most important competition cars in the history. Shot on international locations, each featured car is driven and appraised by renowned racer, Alain de Cadenet.

  • Monster Jam
    Monster Jam (2005)N/A

  • Unique Whips
    Unique Whips (2005)N/A

    Unique Whips was a television show that aired on the defunct Speed Channel from 2005–2008. The show follows the work of Unique Autosports based on Long Island, New York as they customize celebrity automobiles. Created and Produced by Steve Hillebrand and Corey Damsker of Hollywood East www.hollywoodeast.tv. The customization generally consists of car stereo, wheels, custom paint and interior work. Celebrities whose cars have been featured on the show include: P.DIDDY, DJ Pauly D, Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart, Pam Anderson, Patti LaBelle, 50 Cent, LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, Marcus Camby, Fat Joe, and Tom Wolfe.

  • Wrecked
    Wrecked (2008)N/A

    The Gratzianna family and their team of fearless tow truck drivers navigates a mix of out-of-control customers, stranded motorists and massive highway accidents and recoveries. They put their lives at risk day in and day out to keep the streets of Chicago and their passengers safe.

  • SuperCars Exposed
    SuperCars Exposed (2008)N/A

    Tanner Foust takes you inside the extreme lifestyles of the guys and gals who live for their rides.

  • Intersections
    Intersections (2010)N/A

  • Car Warriors
    Car Warriors (2011)N/A

    Car Warriors is an American automotive reality TV show produced by BASE Productions and aired for two seasons on Speed in the United States and Discovery Communications affiliates in international markets. For season 1, each episode pits an all-star car restoration team against a rival team from a different city to restore and modify their car in less than 72 hours. The challenging team has a chance to take home not only their car, but the All Stars' car should they win the contest; otherwise, they go home empty-handed if they lose. Season 2 replaces the All Stars with another local restoration team, as both teams have 48 hours to transform their cars for a chance to keep them in the end.

  • Car Crazy
    Car Crazy (N/A)N/A

    Car Crazy is a Speed Channel television series about automotive enthusiasts, hosted by Barry Meguiar, President and CEO of the Meguiar's car care product empire. Each episode features various interviews with automotive enthusiasts, which Barry refers as 'car guys'. Some episodes also feature Meguiar's Award. In each episode, Barry expresses the joys of being a "car guy" in missionary fashion. On various occasions, Barry has claimed that his "car hobby" is a form of incurable disease, and it is his job to spread this 'disease' to all over the world. Barry claims the 'disease' is also genetically inherited. Many Car Crazy Trivia answers use Wikipedia as an information source, making it one of the first television shows that openly credits Wikipedia, rather than questioning Wikipedia's accuracy.

  • Two Guys Garage
    Two Guys Garage (N/A)N/A

    Two Guys Garage is an American reality television series on automobile repair and customizing, hosted by Bryan Fuller and Sam Memmolo and airing on Speed Channel since 2001. The series is based in Tampa, Florida. The hosts changed in 2012, now hosting the show Kevin Byrd who hosted with Bryan Fuller for several years, along with Willie B. ""Willie B"" also hosts a radio show for ""KBPI"" in Denver, CO, and two seasons on ""PINKS"" on SPEED Channel. SPEED Channel changed to FOX Sports One in August 2013 and no longer aired how-to automotive programming. The show moved to GAC owned by Scripps. Scripps also owns HGTV, Travel Channel, Food Network, Cook Channel, DIY Network. These how-to networks reach over one million homes across the US.

  • 7 Days
    7 Days (N/A)N/A

    7 Days is a program that ran on the Speed Channel starting in February 2006 that shows the views of the NASCAR world. The program follows someone related to NASCAR for seven days. The program was broadcast weekly and was approximately 30 minutes in length. The subjects in 7 Days include crew chiefs, drivers, fans, track workers and shop workers. Among those shown in 7 Days were J. J. Yeley, Denny Hamlin, Doug Richard, Buffy Waltrip, Boris Said, Carl Edwards and Martin Truex Jr. In 2007, the show was canceled by the Speed Channel, and replaced with Survival of the Fastest.

  • Pass Time
    Pass Time (N/A)N/A

    Pass Time was an American game show airing on Speed. In the show, two contestants competed against each other and "resident expert" Kenneth Herring, attempting to predict the pass times of a series of drag racers. Pass Time was hosted by Speed personality Brett Wagner, and Paige Simpson served as the show's "car wrangler". Simpson rarely speaks on-camera during the show, although she was the only one to speak on-camera in a 2011 promotional ad for the show, giving directions to Wagner and Herring. The show last aired on August 16, 2013, the last day of Speed programming before the change in the U.S. to Fox Sports 1.

  • Forza Motorsport Showdown
    Forza Motorsport Showdown (N/A)N/A

    Forza Motorsport Showdown was a weekly television show on Speed Channel, produced by BCII, Inc. The show was a collaboration of Speed Channel and Microsoft Game Studios to present a live-action mini-series based on the new Forza Motorsport 2 video game. The series was produced on location at Road Atlanta Speedway. The host was Lee Reherman, who is best known as "Hawk" on the television show, American Gladiators.

  • 101 Cars You Must Drive
    101 Cars You Must Drive (N/A)N/A

    101 Cars you Must Drive was a Speed TV program hosted by actor and comedian Alonzo Bodden. The premise of the program is that there will be 101 cars, and that all 5 cars within a particular episode can be linked to one another in some fashion.

  • NASCAR Race Hub
    NASCAR Race Hub (N/A)N/A

    NASCAR Race Hub is a daily NASCAR news program broadcast on Fox Sports 1 Monday through Thursday. Originally broadcast on Speed, the show replaced NASCAR Nation and This Week in NASCAR. NASCAR Race Hub premiered on October 12, 2009 as a 30 minute show, but was extended to 60 minutes in the following years. The show was again shortened to 30 minutes after moving to Fox Sports 1 from Speed in August 2013, only to be returned to 60 minutes starting on September 23.

  • Autoline Detroit
    Autoline Detroit (N/A)N/A

    Autoline Detroit is a weekly television show about automobile industry. Extra contents that did not fit into the television broadcast are also found in the shows web site.

  • SPEED Center
    SPEED Center (2011)N/A

    SPEED Center was a motor sports news program on Speed Channel. Debuting on February 13, 2011, It was anchored by Adam Alexander with Jeff Hammond and Sam Hornish, Jr. as analysts on Sunday episodes. Ricky Rudd was the analyst for the first 2 races at Daytona and Phoenix.

  • WindTunnel with Dave Despain
    WindTunnel with Dave Despain (N/A)N/A

    WindTunnel with Dave Despain was a live viewer call-in show exclusively for auto racing fans that debuted on Speed Channel on February 22, 2003 and ended on August 11, 2013. During the course of the show, host Dave Despain fielded telephone calls and read e-mail from viewers, some of them directed at the guest Despain is interviewing, which was done just after the first segment, titled "Hot Topics", which Despain reads the big stories from the racing world. After the interview segment, Despain did a segment just for him, titled "My Take", in which he gave his opinion on news from the racing world. There was also an awad for the best e-mail or phone call from each show, as the winning viewer received a Despain bobblehead. It was a coveted prize among viewers. When WindTunnel debuted, the show aired Friday nights at 11 PM. The pilot episode was only a half-hour long. The time length was changed to an hour the very next week. In August 2003, WindTunnel expanded to four nights a week and moved to a 9 PM timeslot. In 2005, to the chagrin of some of the series' fans, WindTunnel was scaled back to one night a week, airing for two hours beginning at 9 PM on Sunday nights. In 2006, WindTunnel was scaled back to one hour. There have been special episodes of WindTunnel shown as part of the lead-up to the Daytona 500 and the Sprint All-Star Race.